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Thomas County cat., 1887-11-03
About the Giraffe.

The giraffe is found in Africa. He
is the ,allest of all animals. usually
about fifteen feet high. He has two
short horns. covered with hairy skin.
One of the strongest things about him
is his tongue, which is very long; he
can put it great way ont of his
mouth. and twist it round twig or
bough which he wishes to break off.
Yet he can put it inside the ring of a
small key.
Giraff.s live in herds; about twenty
feed together. While they are feeding.
they have sentinels placed ready to
give warning if an enemy is coming.
They can see great way OF; their
scent is keen. They are swift run.
ners. so it is not easy for hunters to
catch them.
The giraffe defends himself bravely
against an enemy. When he fights, he
kicks very hard with his hind-legs, and
sometimes he turns his long neck
sidewise and strikes hard blow with
his head. In these ways he will con-
quer even lion.
But the lion sometimes attacks the
giraffe in such way that he can not
resist. He hides himself near the
stream where the giraffe comes to
drink; when he is drinking the lion
springs upon his back and holds on
with his cruel claws. The poor giraff.
runs until he is wearied out, when the
lion tears him to pieces.
and licks the hand of the person that
feeds him. He does not eat meat. but
feeds on grass and leaves. When tanned
he eats corn and hay like the cow.
Like the COW. tco. he chews the cpb.
Animals that chew the cud are called
ruminating animals-Pame!a Med.
Cole, in Our Little Men and Women
Thomas County cat., 1887-11-03
a GOOD SUGGESTION.
II II Wiser and Better to Talk Pastors Up
Than to Talk Them Down.

II II Wiser and Better to Talk Pastors Up
Than to Talk Them Down.
| The Religious Herald. of Hartford.
makes suggestion that certain kind
of pastoral support which it holds to be
more important than an abundance OF
bank notes The suggestion might be
profitable any time. but some parishes
in the vicinity of Boston may find 1t
specially time Just now. The illus
tration. which the Herald takes as the
basis of the suggestion. is the case OF
DR.. James Shaw. pastor OF the Brlck
PRESBYTERIAN Church of Rochester. N.
~. After he had been settled several
years. there began to be expressions OF
| dissatisfaction with his qualities as
preacher. and many of the members
were discussing the question whether
it might not he best for them to get
another pastor. The congregation
fell off, and the state of things
was becoming quite deplorable. at
this juncture two prominent business
men talked over the situation. and con-
cluded to advise the church to change
its course at once. They said: "Mr:
Shaw is not a good preacher. but he is
a good man. and we all have confi-
dence in him. Now, instead of talk
ing him down, let us talk him up
This advice was given and acted Oh
A marked change was soon apparent.
The congregation rapidly increased.
and the church rapidly prospered. D..
Shaw has been the pastor forty seven
years. and is still active and influen-
tial, and the church has member
ship of fifteen hundred. The story
carries its own moral with it. If more
churches would adopt the practice o.
talking their pastors up instead OF
talking them down. there would be
fewer instances of pastoral relations
hastily and unwisely severed. d.-Bostoa
Journal.
Thomas County cat., 1887-11-03
Sunday-SchooI Lesson.

FOURTH QUARTER.
Oct. 2-The Centurion's Faith. Matt. 8
S-13.
Oct. a.-The Tempest Stilled Matt. g: 1927
Oct. l6-Power to Forgive Sins. Matt. g.
l-8
Oct 23.-Three Miracles. Matt. Q: 1881.
Oct 30.-The Harvest and the Laborers. Matt
}: 353s; 10: l-8.
Nov. G.-Confessing Christ. Matt. 10: 32-42.
Nov. 13-Chris;'s Witness to John. Matt. II
2-15
Nov. 2O-Judgment and Mercy. Matt. II:
e0:3o.
Nov. 2.-Jesus and the Sabbath. Matt. 12:
ia.
Dec. 4.-Parable of the Sower Matt. 10:
10
Dec. I1.-Parable of the Tares. Matt 13:
1894
Dec. 18-Other Parallels. Matt. 13: 3l-33;
44-52
Dec. 25.-Rcview Lesson selected by the
school; or. Christmas Exercise.
Thomas County cat., 1887-11-03
THE OCCASION LOST.

A Woman's View Of the Recent Constitu-
tional Celebration at PhiisdelPhis.
The Centennial observance of the
adoption of the Constitution was a
grand industrial, military and civic
display. In that respect it left moth
ing to be desired. Too much honor
can not be given to the men by whom.
and to the day on which. the founda-
ton was laid that made tins great
Nation possible.
But it is easier to celebrate great
ness than to achieve L. This very oc-
casion was most Opportune for re-
affirming the principle laid down q
hundred years ago. that the consent
Of the governed is the basis Of . just
government in its application to gov
Thomas County cat., 1887-11-03
FOR OUR YOUNG READERS
GOOD NIGHT.

In the sky the stars are peepiny,
And the mooE is shining bright:
Ger the world watch they're keeping:
Babies dear. good night
Downy baby birds are resting.
Hidden safely from the light;
Under mothers wings they're nesting:
Baby birds, good night.
Little lambs are warm and quiet,
Little lammies, soft and white:
With their mothers close beside them:
Baby lambs, good night
Bees and butterflies are sleeping,
Folded wings no more take fight;
Folded they, until the morrow
Butterflies, good night.
Baby buds have gently wrapped them
In their tinted petals bright;
Shut their eyes, the winds will rock them
Baby buds, good night.
Over all, the dear good angels,
Holy angels, pure and white,
Watch the little ones that slumbe
Babies all, good night.
Amy E. Blanchard, in Wee Bcbies.
Thomas County cat., 1887-11-03
rnsd women, NO less than % governed

erned women. NO less thar 20 gOvernee
Hen.
II the voice Of the great multituds.
gathered on the 18th of September. had
been heard for equal human rights ir-
respective of sex, it would have been
the beginning of the end of the subJec-
ton of women. Congress would have
felt the force of its affirmation. Every
State legislature would have been in-
fuenced by it. 1t would have marked
an epoch which glad millions would
have honored for ever. As the centu-
ries roll by. that day would have been
observed as a great historic day. But
the occasion was lost. The men who
celebrated the great deed of dead
heroes on the 18th of September left
no great deed of their own to be cele-
brated now or hereafter.
But how great was the need! To-
day every male ruf,ian out of prison is
entitled to vote. The burglar or the
incendiary serves his sentence and
comes to the polls with an unques-
toned right to cast his ballot The
man who pounded his wife. broke her
nose. tore her hair, and put out her
eyes with an awl was sentenced by .
New York court to only nine months
imprisonment He will come out Of
prison and vote for legislators who
will be lenient to wife-beaters. She
will wander with blinded eyes, power
less to protect herself, and with no
adequate protection by law. The men
who commit indecent assaults upon
women and little girls vote. as in Della
ware. to limit the age of protection for
female children to seven years. The
heartbroken mothers may wiring their
hands in helpless agony, but the pow
er for protection which is in the ballot
is denied to them.
But more than any personal wrongs
is the danger to the public welfare
which comes by the exercise of political
power by vast classes of irresponsible
and wicked men. while there is no
adequate moral power to offset or
counterbalance it. Men have had this
dred years. The respect for law and
order with which they began has
grown less and less. The peace and
safety of all our cities are menaced.
and the integrity Of the Government
itself is put in peril by the increase Of
political corruption and intrigue. Of
vice ana crime, and every species Of
lawlessness. Men who desire a right
condition of things are powerless.
The one thing left to oppose these
growing evils which has not been
tried is political power in the hands Of
women.
The opportunity came at Philadel-
phia to add the force of that great as
sembly in favor of the ballot for women
and it was lost!-Lucy Stone, is
W0ma1's Journal
Thomas County cat., 1887-11-03
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss HENRIETTA j. WELLS. of class
'87. Wellesley College, has been ap-
pointed teacher of music and Greek at
the Tilden Ladies Seminary, West
Lebanon, N. II.
Mrs ANrOINETrE Brown BLACK
WELL has put her youngest daughter
to study in the school of Technology,
Boston. Mrs Blackwell is herself
graduate of Oberlin.
Miss FLORENCE GREENE, of Mon
treal, who saved her father last sum-
mer from being carried over the La
chine Rapids. has been presented with
the medal of the Royal Humane So
ciety of England
Mrs. CASE. T. real estate agent in
Chicago. makes specially of renting
furnished houses, and she succeeds ad-
mirably, because women understand
better than men what furnished
house requires. and how to show it.
HELEN NJ. HERLIE. in the Contem-
porary Reriev, deals in a strong and
pungent manner with the notion now
put forward that women need lower
and not higher education She
claims that what promotes intelligent
womanhood is good for all that may
come to women as wives and mothers
Miss MARY G. BURDErTE, sister Of
Bob BUrdette, the humorist, is win
ing approval in n serious undertaking.
She delivers Sunday evening lectures
ON religious topics. and has good
audiences whenever she appears.
Miss Burdette is a woman of singular
earnestness and enthusiasm. She
has been for some years in charge Of
the Baptist Mission Training School in
Chicago. and is Corresponding Secre-
tary of the Baptist Women's Homo
Missionary Society.
Mrs. MARIA S. PORTER contributed
the following verses on the seventy
eighth birthday of Oii:cr Wendell
Holmes:
"we've brought the sweetest roses from our
garden by the sea,
With kindly birthday greeting. dear :Autocrst.'
to thee.
And may their lips Of fragrance breathe more
than we can say
OF tender. loyal homage that Ills our hearts To-
day.
No smallest leaf of laurel can be woven in thy
crown.
The world has paid its tribute in need Of high
-enown.
God grant thee years Of viso.. 70 sing. froL CAV
to day,
Songs sweeter than these roses dear poo,
friend, we pray"
Mrs. JOSEPH CAREY. whose husband
represents Wyoming Territory in Con-
gress. says that while the presence oi
ladies has put complete check on the
and bad language attend
ant on the tallot-box, it also makes
women very careful about discussing
each others characters and even mil
linery. "For example. if / said had
seen Mrs. Blank in the same old bon
net that she wore last year and Mrs.
Blank should hear Of the remark, /
doubt If the lady would ever vote 1or
my husband again. This is . triniAg
illustration. but it will show how n.
sponsible women may Be made, and
how the suiffaee acts - . preventive
to careless or malicieus gossip"
Thomas County cat., 1887-11-03

Miss Cawhorn. of Carroll County.
Tennessee. never learned to walk. ard
has to be carried about like baby.
She weighs l6O pounds She is not
lame. but simply does not know hov
to use her lower Limbs
Thomas County cat., 1887-11-03

in making the violets God used
the color with which He tainted the
sky. The lowlicst moral and spiritual
graces are IS beautiful in his eyes as
the l0ftiest t-lsstcrsoE.
Thomas County cat., 1887-11-03
RELIGIOUS READING.
THE HEARTS RELEASE.

Heart that's longing for peace
Mid tiibulation,
Holding thy woes increase
In contemplation.
Know that thy God OF love
VIII every care remove,
And grant sweet peace, above
Thine expectation
Not to the me who shrinks
Griefs visitation,
But to the one who drinks,
In resignation,
The cup Of human woe
That Is his lot below.
Gladness will God bestow
In compensation.
Christ doth to thee assure
Full consolation,
II thou wilt but endure
Earth's lamentation.
Arise, and bravely bear
Thy part OF pain and care,
Then shalt thou surely share
Heavens jubilation.
-Rec. n. Plass. in ". y ObserUer.
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The Three C's n. n.

Col. Thom. e. Matson, Chief Engin-
eer of the G. c. &C. r. r. accompanied
by Capt 0. A. Ramsour of the South
ern corps of Engineers, arrived in town
last Tuesday COL Matson has, on ar
riving here, personally completed his
inspection Of the entire line from Cam
den, S. c., to Ashland, on the Ohio
river.
Capt. Ramsour will have charge OF
the location South of Marion, Capt, w.
j, Johnson, Col. Matson's former tran
sit man, will have charge of that por-
ton of the lire north of Marion to the
Breaks at the Virginia line, and Capt.
Osborne is in the field and will be in
charge of the line north from the
Breaks to the Ohio River The work
will now be pushed with vigor. Ten
miles at the northern end is to be i'm
mediately extended southwark from
Richardson, KY, the present termini
of the Chattaroi division OF the three
C's road. This brings the Chattaroi
division to the camel coal beds OF
Kentucky, and will give that end all
the business it can do with the addi-
tion of two more locomotives which
the three C's will Immediately add to
the present equipment,-Marion En-
terprise.
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New Pension Legislation.

The House OF Representatives pass.
ed an important pension bill which
will largely add to the roll of public
henefciaries. The present law as to
dependency so far as heirs are con-
cerned requires pension claimant to
prove dependence at the time of the
soldiers death. The bill passed makes
it only necessary to show by COM
petent evidence that the parents are
now dependent and without other
means of support than their own man
ual labor. All persons whe served
three months in the service, and who
may now or may hereafter be suffer-
ing from mental or physical disability
not the result OF vicious habits or
gross carelessness, and who are de-
pendent on their labor for support,
are to be placed on the pension roll at
the rate of $12 month, the pension
to commence upon the date Of the fill.
ing of the application. Rank in the
service is not to be considered in ap
plications under the bill, but there il
proviso that only one pension is to
be allowed to one person at the same
time. To collect this class of claim,
the fee of the agent or attorney is fix
ed at So.
The House also concurred in thu
Senate amendments to the bill tc
grant pensions to the surviving sol
diers and sailors of the Mexican war
1t embraces in its provisions all wht
served sixty days. To the widow,
who have not remarked the provis
ions likewise apply, but such as serv
ed in the Confederate army are ex
cluded from its benefits. The rate o
pensions is So a month.
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The bills granting pensions of $4,000
yearly to Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Blair,
widow OF Gen. Frank P. Blair, were
defeated Tuesday in the House COM
mittee on invalid pensions. There
were two absentees-Nessrs. Pidcock
and Elisberry-when the committee
met. The members were arrayed on
party lines-seven Democrats voting
against and five Republicans in favor
of the bills. The adverse majority re-
ports on the Logan and Blair bills will
be made by Messrs. Swope and Taul-
bee respectively and the favorable
minority reports by MessrS. Conger
and Morrill,.
1t is understood that the basis of
the opposition to the bills is a reluc-
tance on the part of the majority OF
the committee to the continuance of
the policy of granting high pensions
to widows of officers who did not die
from injuries incurred in the service.
The only precedent for passing such
bills are found in the cases of the wild
ows and families OF Admiral Far
ragut, Generals Hancock, Thomas and
Grant, and the majority of the com
mittee believe that it would be bad
policy to follow these precedents, in
view of the fact that there are about
one hundred surviving widows of Off
GERS who would then be entitled tc
pensions who are now excluded by
the general law,
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Railroad Notes.

Shelby, IN. CO. New Era.
The Charleston, Cincinnati & Chi
cago Railroad Company have reached
Rutherford county with their track
and are pushing rapidly toward Ruth
erfordton.
The company have contracted with
Messrs. Walker & Bridges, Of Moores-
boro, for the construction OF the pas
senger and freight depots and other
buildings at that place.
Meetings have recently been held
at Yorkville and Camden in the inter-
est of the Charleston, Cincinnati &
Chicago Railroad Company. The
meetings, which were for the purpose
of effecting a change in the votes and
aid proposed to the road, were address,
ed by Col. Frank Coke, president, Gen.
]. t. Wilder, vice president, Col. Thos.
E. Matson, chief engineer, Senator
Butler, and Col. P. P. Dickinson, di-
rectors of the road, and Col. r. A.
Johnson, general manager of the
Massachusetts, and Southern Con-
struction Company. The necessary
orders have since been passed.
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Violation Of Pension Laws.
Knoxville Tribune.

KnoXyille tribune.
The present session Of the United
States court has had before it a class
of cases known as violation of pension
laws that has, to certain extent taken
the place Of violation of revenue laws,
and consequently there are fewer peo-
PIE from the country in the city.
The Congress Of the United States
has passed laws with reference to PEN
sions that must in some cases work
hardship to the pensioners. 1t has
done all it could to throw safeguards
around the carrying out Of the letter
of the laws as to make it almost inn
possible for any one unless thoroughly
posted to haye anything to do with
the matter for fear OF being brought
before the courts.
The pensioner is compelled to exc
cute and forward to the agency GER
ti6cate every three months sworn to
in person before some qualified officer,
upon receipt of this check for the
amount of claims is sent.
The case tried yesterday was brought
about in this way. An elderly lady
living seme distance from one OF the
towns in upper East Tennessee who is
a prisoner was sick She sent her son
with her certificate to an attorney who
filled it out and had the clerk OF the
court certify to the signature Of the
woman. The lady was well known
and as matter of mere form without
any intention of doing wrong the sig
nature was certified to by the clerk.
The papers we're sent on and the
check sent to the pensioner. There
was nothing more nor less than tech
: nical violation in it, but for all that an
officer of the Government investiga-
ted the matter, and backed up by the
| Revised Statutes and statement oil
the above facts the grand jury brought
in true bill.
The trial before the court Thursday
: brought to light the above, Judge Key
in his charge made so clear to the
mind Of all that there was not the
least evidence of an intention of viola
ting the law, that the Attorney-Gener
al, J. C.J. Williams, asked that the ju
ry bring o verdict of not guilty, which
was done.
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Eggs are Profitable at all Seasons.

Eggs are higher in winter because
the cost of production is greater at
that season but though eggs may be
lower in price during the summer, yet
they give profit, however, unless
selling at a point too far distant
from market to allow of favorable op-
portunities in prices But in summer
the conditions for laying are more
favorably, and the number Of eggs Sc
cured are greater. The fowls require
less attention, can pick up a portion
Of their food, while that which may
be fed them is procured at less ex-
pense. Be the advantages what they
may, at any season OF the year, it re-
quires but few moments considera-
ton on the part of the farmer to be
convinced that eggs bring better
prices, compared with cost OF produc-
ton, than any other articles on the
farm, and especially is tins the case
when it is considered that while the
hens may be fed literally, yet the la
Dor bestowed on them, compared with
other stock, is very Slight, and fol
that reason they are always profitable
American Agricelturist for February
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EASTTENNEssEE LEATHER.
Carries OFF, the Highest Award
at the Great Liverpool
Exposition.

During the last ten or u dozen years
or so there have been great many,
international and other expositions in
various parts OF the world-in Eng
land, in France, in Belgium, in Aus
tria and even in Australia and New
Zealand, and at all of these American
manufactures have been well repre-
sented-and not only so, but they
have usually managed to carry off the
lions share OF the awards in the class
es in which they have exhibited. Eu.
ropean manufacturers of the same
kind of goods stand amazed at the de-
gree of perfection that is arrived at on
this side of the water, and in vain en-
deavor to regain their lost supremacy.
A striking illustration of what is
meant is afforded by the fact that
MeSsers. G. B. Horton & Co., OF SO
Frankfort street, New York, well
known manufactures of hemlock and
oak sole leather, have just been ad-
judged the highest award given-at
the great Exposition that has just
closed at Liverpool, England, for their
famous oak sole leather, making one
more to an already lengthy list of
prizes won in different parts Of the
world in times past-for their oak
and hemlock sole, at Vienna in 1873
at the Centennial in 1886, at Paris in
1873, at the American Institute Fair
in 1872 and so on.
Messrs. Horton g. Co, are one of the
largest manufactures of and dealers in
hemlock and oak sole leather in this
county. They have number of tan
neries OF their own and control the out
put of others in different parts OF the
country. One of their own tannerie'
is called the Watauga Tannery and il
located at Johnson City, Tenn. ThC
firm have been established since 1867
and from the first have been acknowl
edged leaders in the business, by rea
son of the science, skill, experience
and care brought to bear in all the de
partments of their work They shil
their goods to all parts of the Unite,
: States and also export to Europe
: largely to England, Sweden and Nol
, way. There is no question but the
make and handle the finest hemloc
and oak sole leather Of any house i
the world.-New York Ccmmercic
Q NeUs
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Shall it be a Business Success:
From N. Y. Sun.

From N. Y. Sun.
1t may appear strange that an Ad-
ministration whose chief idea was to
substitute business principles for pol
itich, cannot be said so far to have had
any particular success in the man
agsment OF questions peculiarly con-
nected with the commercial world.
In the first place, the idea to which
the Administration has clung more
tenaciously than to any other, in spite
Of the opposition OF its party, has been
the abolition of the silver coinage in
order to insure the permanency of the
gold standard. Yet there can be moth.
ing more hostile to business prosperi-
ty than a standard increase in price
causing the relative prices of all other
commodities to decline.
Another question OF vital impor
tance is how to prevent the piling uE
Of a great surplus in the Treasury, anC
to avoid the immense disarrangemen
of business which would be the in
evitable result of such an accumula
ton. During two sessions OF Con
gress the efforts Of the Administra
ton have been directed in favor OF tn,
revenue scheme introduced by Col
Morrison and intend to reduce tn,
surplus by cutting in the tariff. Tn,
attempt has failed, but it has been &C
companied by the disquietude in tn
business world which usually attend
such agitation.
There is another plan for dealing
with the surplus to be introduced il
Congress by the economical oppo
nents of the tariff slashers, the pre-
tectionist Democrats. If that sue
ceeds, even though Mr., Clevelan
may have had little to do with it, h
may still claim much Of the credi
and the public will have reason to II
gard his Administration as s valuabI
business organization.